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Lot 1047: ANDREAE, JOHANNES.

Est: $700 USD - $900 USDSold:
BonhamsNew York, NY, USDecember 04, 2012

Item Overview

Description

Lecture super arboribus consanguineitatis et affinitatis.... Vienna: Hieronymus Vietor and Johann Singriener, by Leonhard and Lucas Alantsee, February 1, 1513.
4to (218 x 158 mm). a-dυ6 e-gυ4. Text in single column with gloss surround. Title in woodcut architectural surround. 6 full-page woodcuts of genealogical trees by HANS BALDUNG GRIEN, smaller woodcut diagrams. Woodcut printer's mark at colophon. Large armorial woodcut on g4v. Modern boards.
Provenance: extensive and minute marginalia in two early hands, including some interlineal annotations and a manuscript diagram.

Popular medieval guide to blood relationship, this edition includes a German-Latin vocabulary. It also includes the striking genealogical trees which are Hans Baldung Grien's first book illustrations (first published in the 1505 Nuremberg edition).

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Auction Details

The Dictionary Collection of Thomas Malin Rodgers

by
Bonhams
December 04, 2012, 12:00 PM EST

580 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10022, US